Words like violence, break the silence, they come crashing in........

[marmar]

.....Pop culture vultures, what song do those subject line lyrics hail from? :think:





from MassTransitMag:



Putting "Mute" in Commute; Amtrak's Quiet Car Cult
Updated: May 4, 2011


The offending snacker sheepishly folded the bag away, and his fellow passengers relaxed back into their cozy cloth seats. Silence reigned again.

The Quiet Car on Amtrak, which debuted in 1999 at the request of a group of silence-seeking commuters traveling between Philadelphia and the Big Apple, has achieved cult status. Train conductors are considered heroes for enforcing silence with an iron fist and booting loudmouths from the prized sanctuary. Overworked, overstressed commuters are territorial about their moment of silence and are not afraid to self-police.

"This is the ONLY time the whole week when I can have some peace and quiet!" yelled one passenger awoken from a nap by a cellphone conversation on a recent trip between Washington and New York. The chatterbox folded up his phone in embarrassment.

The cult of quiet has even spawned a Facebook group called "I Love the Quiet Car," where passengers vent about loudmouths breaking the study-hall silence. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.masstransitmag.com/news/10261866/putting-mute-in-commute-amtraks-quiet-car-cult

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Isn't that a line from "Shout at the Devil"?

:hide:

[marmar]

2. LOL......

nt

[redwitch]

3. Tommy Cranberries

????

[nclib]

4. Depeche Mode

Enjoy the Silence

[marmar]

5. WINNER !!!

:party:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. A budding idea

http://www.latimes.com/travel/printedition/la-tr-roadtesta6jan06,0,198173.story



Sure, you have more than a thousand songs crammed into your MP3 player, but what good is all that music if you can't hear it over the jet, train or automobile noise? Enter noise-blocking headphones designed to kill the racket while preserving the rich tones. But now there is an alternative to those bulky, hairdo-mashing headphones: noise-blocking earphones. The earphones -- or ear buds -- are a fraction of the size of headphones and fit inside your ear. There are two types: the kind that block the noise by sealing your ear canal and the kind that use high-tech circuitry to create "anti-noise" sound waves to kill ambient clamor. We tested four models for clarity, comfort and noise elimination.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. I read the bus a few times each year. Almost always there is someone shouting on a cell phone

Sometimes they are shouting: "I'M ON THE BUS!"